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GOP nervous ahead of Kavanaugh vote: “We don’t have 50 right now
Axios ^ | 10/5/18 | Jonathan Swan

Posted on 10/05/2018 4:08:11 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

...A senior source involved in the process told me fairly late last night:

"We’re going into this vote and we don’t have 50 right now." "There’s been a lot of work that was done today, by members wading through this material. I don’t want to put my thumb on..."

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anonymoussources; axios; fakenews; kavanaugh; scotus
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To: Crazy Little Woman

There won’t be a delay. Everybody’s had it. And I think the Hill ‘Rats are starting to figure out that, when it comes to their rent-a-mobs, they’ve created a monster that can just as easily turn on them.


21 posted on 10/05/2018 4:18:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: All

Depending on a vote from Collins, Flake or Murkowski for the betterment of America is the definition of insanity.


22 posted on 10/05/2018 4:19:38 AM PDT by JonPreston
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A senior source involved in the process …
Aw, Axios and their rumor-mongering.
23 posted on 10/05/2018 4:19:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: BigEdLB

if McConnell doesn’t schedule the vote, no one gets held accountable.
I think he would have to schedule a vote regardless of the outcome or all this talk of consequences for the individual ‘no’ sentators is moot.


24 posted on 10/05/2018 4:19:54 AM PDT by BuckeyeGOP
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To: SoFloFreeper

You don’t call for a vote of this importance without knowing if you have the votes or not.


25 posted on 10/05/2018 4:20:03 AM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: All

Who or what the heck is Axious news?


26 posted on 10/05/2018 4:20:51 AM PDT by Doofer
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To: snarkytart
I believe it. And if Collins and whoever (forget Flake) don’t vote YES and Republican’s are the majority in the senate after midterms? They need to punish the HELL out of her...pull her off of committees. Cut whatever pork is going to her district.

She'd jump ship to the dims. I'll betcha they're already promising her the world if she would.

27 posted on 10/05/2018 4:21:26 AM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

“President Trump promises to re-nominate him in the next Congress.”

Are you sure about that? I know Graham says Trump should renominate him, but I didn’t/don’t see anything anywhere that says Trump said he would.


28 posted on 10/05/2018 4:21:48 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: Crazy Little Woman

McCain’s tumor voted... no necessarily McCain


30 posted on 10/05/2018 4:21:58 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Axios is the new far left Politico liars.
I do not believe a word written by these Dem operatives.
This is Dem PR man Mike Allen creation .
His wife is actual
DNC PR rat.

His spreads her astroturf here.

31 posted on 10/05/2018 4:22:09 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Isn’t Axios a Marxist cesspool “news” service?


32 posted on 10/05/2018 4:23:01 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I guarantee Joe Manchin will vote YEA


33 posted on 10/05/2018 4:23:29 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Crazy Little Woman

The clock to the confirmation vote started with McConnell’s cloture call. The only way to push back the confirmation vote now is with agreement by all 100 Senators. Not going to happen.


35 posted on 10/05/2018 4:24:12 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberals, piss off. That is all.)
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To: Crazy Little Woman

One wonders if these folks actually communicate. Certainly the guy who will be at his daughters wedding communicated this to McConnell directly and not through the news papers.

Manchin wants to be yes and it will sell back home. If he is true to his word and is discounting high school and college, he is a yes.

For the life of me, I can’t understand why anyone....for other than cheap political points, would be anything other than a yes. Murkowski will lose her seat over this...folks will remember down the line.


36 posted on 10/05/2018 4:24:23 AM PDT by PSUGOP
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To: snarkytart

We will soon know if “We” are truly a representative republic or not!


37 posted on 10/05/2018 4:24:36 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: SoFloFreeper
The word is that both Collins and Flake have made comments to the effect that they were satisfied with the report.If they have,in fact,done so that suggests to me that they'll be voting “aye”.As for Murkowsi...I'd be willing to bet that Alaskans are hugely in favor so she'd be signing her own political death warrant if she voted “no”.
38 posted on 10/05/2018 4:26:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Axios also claimed rosenstein was resigning just about two weeks ago...


39 posted on 10/05/2018 4:26:27 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Crazy Little Woman

“So how do we know what parts of Murkowski, Flake, and Collins are going to vote?”

They’ll vote with their lady parts, as always.


40 posted on 10/05/2018 4:26:30 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberals, piss off. That is all.)
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